Triple

T3940631
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ewing Kauffman E92024 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Kauffman
Kauffman is a surname most notably associated with American pharmaceutical entrepreneur and Kansas City Royals founder Ewing Kauffman.
 E399547 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Kauffman | Statement: [Ewing Kauffman, familyName, Kauffman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kauffman
Context triple: [Ewing Kauffman, familyName, Kauffman]
  • A. Kahn
    Kahn is a surname most famously associated with Louis Kahn, the influential 20th-century architect known for his monumental and timeless modernist buildings.
  • B. Kac
    Kac is a surname most notably associated with Polish-American mathematician Mark Kac, known for his work in probability theory and mathematical physics.
  • C. Klain
    Klain is the surname of Ron Klain, an American attorney and political operative who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden.
  • D. Milnor
    Milnor is the surname of John Milnor, a prominent American mathematician known for his influential work in differential topology, K-theory, and dynamical systems.
  • E. Kearns
    Kearns is a suburban community in Utah known as a residential area within the Salt Lake City metropolitan region.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Kauffman
Triple: [Ewing Kauffman, familyName, Kauffman]
Generated description
Kauffman is a surname most notably associated with American pharmaceutical entrepreneur and Kansas City Royals founder Ewing Kauffman.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kauffman
Target entity description: Kauffman is a surname most notably associated with American pharmaceutical entrepreneur and Kansas City Royals founder Ewing Kauffman.
  • A. Kahn
    Kahn is a surname most famously associated with Louis Kahn, the influential 20th-century architect known for his monumental and timeless modernist buildings.
  • B. Kac
    Kac is a surname most notably associated with Polish-American mathematician Mark Kac, known for his work in probability theory and mathematical physics.
  • C. Klain
    Klain is the surname of Ron Klain, an American attorney and political operative who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden.
  • D. Milnor
    Milnor is the surname of John Milnor, a prominent American mathematician known for his influential work in differential topology, K-theory, and dynamical systems.
  • E. Kearns
    Kearns is a suburban community in Utah known as a residential area within the Salt Lake City metropolitan region.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69aed965502c8190904ebad1203a4ae8 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeedfc88e4819084adefb695b975c5 completed March 9, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b52894cb94819099d023745fcaebbc completed March 14, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5293c3a0c8190abe1924ecc12dc46 completed March 14, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b529f6a3488190a7a9ae37f71cff56 completed March 14, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:24 p.m.